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--></style></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>It seems like you choose a fairly complicated way to solve the problem.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>May I suggest reading in the MAIACTAOT.h00v02.<b>*</b>.nc files in chronological order and then writing new netcdf files in ncl where you can create a time array with the correct dtg.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>It’s fairly quick and easy in ncl.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>I’ve had such problems before and found it easiest to with the above method.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Hope this helps,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>/M<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#0070C0'>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#0070C0'>Marston S. Ward, PhD<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#0070C0'>Department of Earth Sciences<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#0070C0'>University of Gothenburg, Sweden<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#0070C0'>Email: <a href="mailto:marston.johnston@gu.se"><span style='color:#0070C0'>marston.johnston@gu.se</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#0070C0'>SkypeID: marston.johnston <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#0070C0'>Phone: +46-31-7864901 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#0070C0'>Only the fruitful thing is true!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#0070C0'>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>From: </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>ncl-talk <ncl-talk-bounces@ucar.edu> on behalf of Kunal Bali <kunal.bali9@gmail.com><br><b>Date: </b>Thursday, 5 October 2017 at 20:40<br><b>To: </b>"ncl-talk@ucar.edu" <ncl-talk@ucar.edu><br><b>Subject: </b>[ncl-talk] set_date_time<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Dear NCL users,<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I have one question regarding date-time setting from filename. This question is not actually related to NCL, sorry in advance. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I have 4 .nc files named given below. The time is not created in these files during conversion from hdf to netcdf in NCL. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>MAIACTAOT<span class=gmail-gingersoftwaremark>.</span>h00v02<span class=gmail-gingersoftwaremark>.</span><b><span style='color:red'>2000</span><span style='color:blue'>364</span><span style='color:#FF9900'>07</span><span style='color:fuchsia'>15</span></b><span class=gmail-gingersoftwaremark>.nc</span> --> 2000=year, 364=day, 07=<span class=gmail-gingersoftwaremark>hr</span>, 15=min<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>MAIACTAOT<span class=gmail-gingersoftwaremark>.</span>h00v02<span class=gmail-gingersoftwaremark>.</span>20003650620<span class=gmail-gingersoftwaremark>.nc</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>MAIACTAOT<span class=gmail-gingersoftwaremark>.</span>h00v02<span class=gmail-gingersoftwaremark>.</span>20003660525<span class=gmail-gingersoftwaremark>.nc</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>MAIACTAOT<span class=gmail-gingersoftwaremark>.</span>h00v02<span class=gmail-gingersoftwaremark>.</span>20003660700<span class=gmail-gingersoftwaremark>.nc</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>So, I did try to create the date-time with shell scripting (given below)<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmail-gingersoftwaremark>but</span> it is creating wrong date as the files are of December month, but it is generating January month date also. I don't know why. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b>2000-01-01 05:25:00</b><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b>2000-01-01 07:00:00</b><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>2000-12-30 07:15:00<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>2000-12-31 06:20:00<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmail-gingersoftwaremark>the</span> shell script, which I am using<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>#######################################<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>for n in MAIACTAOT.h00v02.20*.nc;do<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> ls $n > text<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>export xx=`cut -c18-28 text`<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>export YYYY=`cut -c18-21 text`<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>export JJJ=`cut -c22-24 text`<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>export HH=`cut -c25-26 text`<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>export MM=`cut -c27-28 text`<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>mm=`date -d "$JJJ days $YYYY-01-01" +"%m"`<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>dd=`date -d "$JJJ days $YYYY-01-01" +"%d"`<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>mydate=${YYYY}-${mm}-${dd},${HH}:${MM}:00<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>echo $mydate<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>echo "cdo settaxis,$mydate $n re$n"<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>cdo settaxis,$mydate $n re$n<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>done<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>cdo mergetime reMAI*.nc <a href="http://final.nc">final.nc</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>exit<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>#################################<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Any suggestion regarding this issue would be very helpful.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Thank You<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br clear=all><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Kunal Bali<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________ ncl-talk mailing list ncl-talk@ucar.edu List instructions, subscriber options, unsubscribe: http://mailman.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/ncl-talk <o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>